[bigger_inside]

also, (or: alternatively?) one that can't be/won't be blocked by the centralized services' spam filters. The biggest hurdle to running your own email server nowadays isn't the online time or the data volume or anything; it's that the existing institutions don't recognize you as part of the institutional club and block your messages...

btw, Germany did this a decade ago: giving everyone an email account with the national mail service, as an "official email." I honestly don't know anyone here who uses it.

[merlinscholz]

Speaking of Germany, do you mean De-Mail? Because while it is similar to email, it is not email compatible and had a lot of shortcomings.

[BlueTemplar]

Yeah, that's the issue : how do you deal with bad actors like gmail or hotmail that by their sheer size seem to have lost all accountability ?

[acdha]

> it's that the existing institutions don't recognize you as part of the institutional club and block your messages...

How common is this if you’ve setup DKIM, SPF, etc.? I’ve only heard about problems in that context where someone hadn’t done the basics or was trying to send from shared IPs and hit some spammer’s past reputation.

[pjc50]

Given an account with the legal privilege to spam, how would you prevent it filling up everyone else's inboxes?

[eberkund]

Presumably it would be tied to an individual's identity which would make it easy to identify who was sending the email and fine them using existing anti-spam laws.